What is Summon?

With Summon, you can quickly search, discover and access reliable and credible Library content - print and electronic books, single articles to entire e-journals, newspapers, theses and more. Once found it's only one step to the full text of articles and ebooks, or finding books on the shelf. You are able to limit your results to peer-reviewed materials, to filter by year and format, narrow by additional subject terms and save, print or email references.

Summon is a good starting point to find material for your research. Search Summon from the Library website, from the student portal or from your smartphone.

What's covered in Summon?

Summon includes records from the RRU Library catalogue, records from DSpace and as well as citations and full text of approximately 80% of scholarly journals, to which RRU Library owns or provides access.

A single search

Summon provides a Google-like search experience - use one searchbox to discover credible and reliable library content.

Mobile friendly

Compatible with major mobile devices, such as iPhone and Blackberry (app is automatically downloaded).

Relevant results

Delivers search results in a relevancy-ranked list so that the most relevant results appear at the top of the list.

Results refinement

Easily navigate and narrow search result sets using multiple methods, such as filtering, faceting and sorting.

Full-text filter

Results sets can be limited to items immediately available in fulltext online.

Scholarship filter

Limit results to "scholarly" publications including peer-reviewed material.

Bibliographic information export

Easily export citations to bibliographic management software, such as EndNote.

"Did you mean?" suggestions

Provides guidance for misspellings or low yield queries.

Use the feedback link at the top of the Summon results page so we can improve the service.